Follow Your Heart – or, Be True To Your Heart? (a reblog)

This was one of my first posts, way back in July of 2016. I can’t believe it has been over a year ago! 😲 How time flies! Anyway… I’ve seen a few references lately about Following Your Heart and decided to reblog. 🙂 Hope you enjoy! ♥

This blog post was inspired by two awesome blog posts I’ve read recently: one at Refreshing Spirit and one at SaylwithPens, that talked about the heart, morals, and the dangers of following what we feel. Thanks to both of you! 🙂

This is a common thing we, especially in our tweens and teens, are told to do, and I really feel the need to rant about it: Follow Your Heart – or, Be True To Your Heart. (No, this isn’t about the song in Disney’s Mulan soundtrack. XD) The phrase sounds innocent enough. But lets be real. What are the heart’s intentions?

Jeremiah 17:9: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Yikes! That sounds bad. Perhaps we can’t know the heart, but we can see what it desires:

That’s what we are doing. I’m watching all the things in my curio – some crystals and other travel collection. Then clean the curio that has thick dust. Then put the things back. This is just one project. Next, I’ll clean the China and the China cabinet. Hopefully I can finish these two before I got to my daughter’s baby shower in 3 weeks!

I’m doing the same with my figurines on my desk and on my shelves; they are so dusty! Unfortunately, dusting makes me sneeze, so I’m not looking forward to finishing, haha. And then I plan to rearrange them because the current arrangement makes no sense.

I ended dip them in the water, wipe off, and let them dry. I cleaned the curio with windex, and put (rearrange) 3 shelves back. One shelf with heavy things, wait until tomorrow, when tired, I may break them.

I cleaned a gumball machine globe with Windex today, and filled it with my old marbles I played with as a kid! I don’t know why I thought it was a good idea, but it actually looks kind of neat, and gives the gumball machine a new look. 🙂 (It has been empty for years.)

Oohhh, I understand that. I broke one of my doves’ wings that way once. I glued it back on, but it isn’t the same. I’m thinking about painting it to help cover the break, because it really isn’t that bad.

I had a small gumball machine once, but I gave it away. Oh when I glue things back, I need to do it when I don’t have to do anything else, just concentrate, so I could glue the pieces back as close as possible.

This reminds me of the scripture in (Proverbs 14:12) which say “There is a way which seems right to a man, but it’s ends lead to destruction…” Thanks for sharing about the dangers of following the untrained heart, Grace…